ʿĪsā ibn Abī Muḥammad told us; Jaʿfar told us; al-Salafī told us; al-Mubārak ibn al-Ṭuyūrī told us; I heard al-Ṣūrī; I heard Abū Bakr ibn Nūḥ; I heard Abū Aḥmad al-ʿAssāl; and I heard Ṣāliḥ Jazara say:
“A ḥadīth scholar needs to have written one hundred thousand—and another hundred thousand…” He went on repeating, “and a hundred thousand,” lifting his head upward until his skull-cap was about to fall off—“reports with an elevated chain; and another hundred thousand, and another hundred thousand,” then he lowered his head until the cap settled back—“reports with a lowered chain—so that people will say, ‘He is truly a man of ḥadīth.’”
13 – Muḥammad ibn Naṣr ibn al-Ḥajjāj al-Marwazī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh
The Imām, Shaykh al-Islām, Abū ʿAbd Allāh the ḥāfiẓ.
Birth: Baghdad, in 202 AH; he was reared in Nīshāpūr and later resided in Samarkand.
His father was from Marw, and nothing further of his pedigree has reached us.
Al-Ḥākim said of him: “The undisputed imām of his age in ḥadīth.”
He heard ḥadīth in Khurāsān from: Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā al-Tamīmī; Abū Khālid Yazīd ibn Ṣāliḥ; ʿUmar ibn Zurārah; Ṣadaqah ibn al-Faḍl al-Marwazī; Isḥāq ibn Rāhwayh; and ʿAlī ibn Ḥujr.
And in Rayy he heard from: Muḥammad ibn Mihrān al-Ḥammāl and Muḥammad ibn Muqātil.